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| Topic | Best of the Trope Day 91: Villainous Valour |
| Johnbobb 09/06/18 7:21:55 PM #1: | Yesterday's Results Hans Gruber - 11 Gaston - 7 Judge Claude Frollo - 6 The Joker - 3 Clayton - 3 Doc Gerbil - 3 Dick Jones - 2 Allfather D'Aronique - 2 Valerian - 1 Wile E. Coyote - 1 Piggsy - 1 Jafar - 1 carl Bruner - 1 Emperor Palpatine - 1 That guy Arnie promised he would kill last, but he lied - 1 Joe - 1 Scar - 1 Syndrome - 1 Mufasa - 1 Nominations Intelligible Unintelligible Supervillain Lair Obfuscating Stupidity Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Always a Bigger Fish What Could Have Been Tall, Dark And Handsome Flaming Hair Glass Cannon Acting In The Dark Bizarre and improbable ballistics Double reverse quadruple agent Upgrade Vs Prototype Fight Nigh-invulnerability The Man in Front of the Man Cain and Abel Evil Brit Spotlight-Stealing Squad Batman in my Basement No One Could Survive That All-American face Defeating the Undefeatable Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from. Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so. Full Results https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope --- Disco Dan - Disco Stu (The Simpsons) Eldritch Location - Silent Hill (Silent Hill) One of Us - David Hayter Hell of a Time - South Park Lady of War - O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill) The Everyman - John McClane (Die Hard) Rasputinian Death - Iconic Sequel Character - Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed) / Yoda (Star Wars) Badass Driver - Baby (Baby Driver) Corpsing - The Biggus Dickus Guards (Monty Python's Life of Brian) Chuunibyou - Gundham Tanaka (Danganronpa 2) Disney Villain Death - Hans Gruber (Die Hard) Today's tropes is the Villainous Valour https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainousValour This is one method for avoiding doldrums from having an Invincible Hero. Scenes of Villainous Valor show the antagonists to be outmatched, forcing them to rely on daring, cunning, skill and determination to hold their own against the heroes, or at least go out with a little dignity. They sometimes even continue a hopeless battle for higher reasons than spite! This often results in a tense back-and-forth as the heroes' raw power is set against whatever the villains brought. Sometimes they win, sometimes they lose, but the mark of Villainous Valor is that it sees the "bad guys" using tropes that you wouldn't expect from them. In fact, if you were just tuning in, you might even be confused about who you're expected to root for. A fight between the Knight in Shining Armor and The Dragon with his Spikes of Villainy will often leave you cheering for The Hero, but what if The Dragon locks swords with the hero and gets between the hero and his master, to allow him time to escape? The scene changes completely. This often appears in shows where the villains are sympathetic or the heroes questionable. Nevertheless, this is not a trope about viewer sympathy so much as bravery, ingenuity and skill on the part of a villainous underdog. --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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